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course. It is true that he was a miler till Mat Dawson 

 got him, but after that he stayed well enough. Be that 

 as it may, the Marquis laid all he could against him, 

 and one particularly rash bet was 10,000 to 500. Mr. 

 Merry, I believe, got this. Mat Dawson has often told 

 me that he implored him to save his money ; but he had 

 got into the mire, and could not get out of it. With 

 ' Mat ' training and fancying the horse, and Mr. Merry 

 backing him, a bet of twenty monkeys was not to be 

 easily hedged, so instead of hedging he hardened to it, 

 and laid a bit more. Saunterer, who started at 7 to 1, 

 won, and Fisherman was second. I need scarcely say 

 that the account was not settled." 



Barely two months later than Jackson died, Lord 

 Glasgow, to whose memory some notice has already 

 been given, entered into rest after a fitful career. 



" Sleep, then, in peace, departed dust, 

 And be thine epitaph ' The Just ' : 

 A name that Malice dare not ' hate,' 

 Nor Envy's self obliterate ; 

 A name affection to command 

 While Truth and Honour rule the land." 



Such was " Amphion's " tribute to the memory of one 

 whose faults were far exceeded by his virtues. Only 

 a brief interval, and the Earl of Derby was called 

 to his last account, the two great and high-minded 

 sportsmen, who had been almost inseparable in life, 

 hardly being parted in death. Intensely a proud man, 

 Lord Derby's hauteur arose rather from a gigantic and 

 cultured intellect than from selfish priggishness. 

 Whether in the Senate or on the Turf, the Earl of Derby, 

 who had attained the allotted span of the Psalmist, was 

 a great, pure-minded nobleman. Lord Lytton thus 

 happily hit off his features 



